Ph.D. University of California,
Office Location: SC1318
Most of my research concerns the functional morphology of birds and mammals and its relationship to ecological segregation among species. I am also interested in macroevolutionary questions such as how morphological and functional diversity compares among recent and fossil communities (e.g., vultures, raptors, owls, seabirds).
Hertel, F. and N. Lehman
(1998). A randomized nearest neighbor approach
for assessment of
character displacement: the vulture guild as a model. Journal of Theoretical Biology 190: 51-61.
Van Valkenburgh, B. and
F. Hertel (1998). The decline of North American
predators during the late
Pleistocene. Pp. 357-374 In Quaternary Paleozoology in the Northern Hemisphere, J. J. Saunders,
B.W. Styles, & G. F. Baryshnikov (Eds.). Ill. State Mus. Sci. Papers, Vol. X XVII.
Roy, M. S., J. C. Torres-Mura,
and F. Hertel (1998).
history of hummingbirds
(Aves: Trochilidae) from the Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile. Ibis 140(2): 265-273.
Hertel, F. (1995). Ecomorphological indicators of feeding
behavior in Recent and fossil raptors.
Auk 112(4): 890-903.
Hertel, F. (1994).
Diversity in body size and feeding morphology within past and present vulture
assemblages. Ecology 75(4): 1074-1084.
Van Valkenburgh, B.and F.
Hertel (1993). Tough times at La Brea: Tooth breakage in large carnivores
of the Late Pleistocene. Science 261: 456-460.